Recently Republican Representative Sean Duffy from Wisconsin was asked by one of his constituents (an out of work builder who's now driving a bus and married to a teacher) if he would be willing to cut his own salary. I love this question so much. The state is broke and so lawmakers decide unions needs to be dismantled and teachers and other public workers need to take pay-cuts. Apparently there are no mirrors in the Wisconsin State Capitol Building.
But all that is beside the point, the reason this exchange made any sort of echo on the interwebs is because of Duffy's response: "blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda I HAVE SIX KIDS, gab, gab, I USED TO DRIVE A MINI VAN, bloat bloat, I HAVE A BUNCH OF STUDENT LOANS, yap yap, I STRUGGLE TO MAKE ENDS MEET, feeling yer pain, MY SALARY IS $174,OOO A YEAR..."
Gulp.
This guy...I don't get him. I guess that's what you call "fiscal responsibility," six kids and a mountain of debt on what is more than four times the average American Worker's salary.
I shouldn't go without mentioning that after rambling on for some time (complaining about how much more he pays for healthcare now than he did at his old job) Duffy finally suggested that he would be okay with a big, fat 5% pay cut.
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